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individuals, because they have been guilty of aggres- 
sion upon the Aborigines. 
“ 4. The natives who had carried our provisions up to Mr. 
Archer’s station, made the same statement to us, as a reason why 
they would not accompany us any farther to the Bunga Bunga 
country. 
“ When writing down, therefore, my journal, I considered it 
unnecessary to make a full statement of all that had come to my 
knowledge since the month of March, concerning that most 
horrid event, or even to relate it as something new, as it was not 
only known several months since to the respective authorities, 
but also as almost every one at Moreton Bay supposed that an 
investigation would take place without delay. 
4t I have, &c. 
(signed) “ William Schmidt, 
“ Missionary.” 
“ S. Simpson, Esq., Commissioner of Crown Lands, 
Eagle Farm.” 
if Woogaroo , Moreton Bay , 6th May , 1843. 
“ Sir, — I have the honour to report, for the information of his 
Excellency, that during my excursion to the Bunga country, I 
have taken every opportunity of instituting an inquiry as to the 
truth of the alleged poisoning of some Aborigines at a sheep sta- 
tion in the north of this district. A report of the kind certainly 
exists among the two tribes I fell in with, namely, the Dallamba- 
rah and Coccombraral tribes, but as neither of them were present 
at the time, they could give me no circumstantial information 
whatever on the subject. The Giggabarah tribe, the one said 
to have suffered, I was unable to meet with. Upon inquiry at 
the stations to the north, I could learn nothing further than that 
they had been using arsenic very extensively for the cure of the 
scab, in which operation sheep are occasionally destroyed by some 
of the fluid getting down their throats ; and as the men em- 
ployed frequently neglect to bury the carcases, it is very possi- 
